Smurf half, lol.
Yeah, I looked at his inventory a few days ago when I came across this... [IMG] C'mon, seriously? Are they teaching AT in kindergarten...
Wow, Lyds, thank you. That post is copied and saved to my research.
I'll give it a grade: A+
That's what I was thinking. It would look like some sort of sickly, feeble copper, right from the get-go.
56% copper, 35% silver and 9% manganese, to be exact. That's a completely different recipe. Alloys behave VERY differently, even with small tweaks.
That's a good question. I imagine an 80:20 clad makes for a better coin - more durable, and appearing more like silver than copper. I don't know...
The problem was that the 64's were extensively hoarded, so the mint went to a silver-clad configuration. To my knowledge, it's the only US coin to...
Yes.
Beginning in 1965, the mint began producing Kennedy half dollars that contained only 40% silver. The outer layers contained a mix of 80% silver...
If I were you, I'd get a copy of the Redbook and the Cherrypicker's Guide and go through the collection with an eye toward key dates, varieties,...
Do you have any goals for this collection?
Wow. Great stuff Greg!
I've noticed the same thing about the Ike's - a lot of beat up dollars in the mint sets. As far as the Kennedy's go, however, the guys ARE right -...
That thread was very helpful, thank you. Thank you to all of you for straightening me out on this. Your advice makes perfect sense.
Thank you sir. I will take your advice, and Greg's, and Tinpot's.
Hm. You're right of course. Well, this is why I post here. So I'll revise my strategy to collecting a few slabs for the sake of grading...
My issue is that I live out in the country, and although I can drive to a few coin shops, most everything I want is online. I don't have anywhere...
On second thought though, it makes sense to me to get the highest grade slabbed pieces I can for all the silver issues through the 60's and put...
Yeah - maybe you're right Tinpot. Maybe all I need is a handful of slabs for the sake of grading education.
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